[racket-dev] Plot testing and feedback

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can I get a racket/gui expert's help on Jay's machine's output? There are
> two issues:
>
> 1. I have it render text with an 8 point font. On Jay's Mac, it's too small
> to be 8 point. Either there's some font scaling or it's erroneously choosing
> an 8 *pixel* font. How can we tell?

I have trouble with font sizes across platforms, too. I think it is
easiest to just special case the default font size (but do the below
first).

> 2. The Mac's get-char-width is returning something apparently too big -
> especially for the tiny font size - which makes all of Jay's plots scrunch
> up to make room for the Y axis labels. Is this a bug?

I think that level of the system is pretty widely used. You might see
if you can sit in front of his machine and play around to see if you
can make a small example and maybe that'll clarify things.

Robby

> I don't know how to work around #1.
>
> For #2, I think I can use get-text-extent with a representative tick label
> string like "0000000.0".
>
> Neil T
>
> On 08/12/2011 07:18 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>>
>> OS X 10.7
>> Racket v5.1.2.3.
>>
>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay/tmp/201108122018-osx.zip
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Neil Toronto<neil.toronto at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I've pushed the latest plot2d and plot3d to my github account. I want to
>>> know whether there are any critical differences in output or execution
>>> time
>>> among platforms. There shouldn't be any, but it's possible.
>>>
>>> Can I get a few volunteers, at least one on Windows and one on Mac, to
>>> clone
>>> it and run the test plots?
>>>
>>> First, do
>>>
>>>    git clone https://github.com/ntoronto/plt-stuff.git
>>>
>>> Then do each of
>>>
>>>    drracket plt-stuff/plot/tests/plot2d-tests.rkt
>>>    drracket plt-stuff/plot/tests/plot3d-tests.rkt
>>>
>>> After running each, copy the entire REPL output (it will contain timing
>>> info
>>> and image snips), paste it into a new .rkt file, and save it in the
>>> current
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> The tests will generate some files (.png, .jpg, .pdf, .svg, etc.) in the
>>> current directory. Zip those and the new .rkt files together, and email
>>> them
>>> to me. Write in the email which OS you're running.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Neil
>>>
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